Hello Everyone! We are very happy to share a new feature that will definitely be of great help for your website viewers when shopping online. For your customer to experience the best and easy way to find the products they want , your website needs to have the a sorting capability of hundreds of your products.
To make that happen, Connected Business has put up the product sorting capability for your webstore. The Product Sorting feature does not have only one but a lot of sorting options to improve the search experience of your customers and viewers.
The following are the sort options that apply to the entity pages such as Category, Manufacturer , and Department on your eCommerce website. No need to set this feature up as this is already integrated as you set up your website.
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- Best Match – the most relevant sort option thatallows you to search for the specific product you are looking for. This option is based on the number of factors such as the buyer’s behaviors on past searches or track records of recently purchased items from your website.
- Best Seller – allows you to sort products from the highest to the lowest selling products recorded within a period of time. Note that you can customize the number of best seller products on your webstore. You can change it through the eCommerce module > Setup > Application Configuration and search for the BestSellersN appconfig. Set the number of best sellers to be shown in your website in the Config Value field.
- Most Popular – allows you to sort products according to the most number of views on your webstore.
- In Stock – allows you to sort products that have available stocks.. The order of the stocks shown on the website is sorted according to products with the highest number of available stocks down to the lowest.
- Price Low to High – allows you to sort products with the lowest price to the highest.
- Price High-to-Low – allows you to sort products with the highest price to the lowest.
- Name A to Z – allow you to sort product names alphabetically in descending order.
- Name Z to A – allow you to sort product names alphabetically in ascending order.
- New Arrival – allows you to sort products according to the latest products posted on the website. In the back end, these products can be the newly purchased stocks or new products to be sold.
Customize Product Sorting Option
However, in case you want to limit the number of sort options for your website (i.e hide the In-Stock sort option from the drop down list), you will have to manually delete it from the productsorting.xml in the XML packages folder.
To do this, go to the installation folder of your Connected Business i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Connected Business 13\ISE\Web\XmlPackages
Open the productsorting.xml in a notepad or Dreamweaver(if available). You may delete the option(s) as highlighted in the code or put it as a comment (<!--content/code-->) in the xml file in case you want to put it back on the website. Save the xml file then go to your website.
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In the webstore, notice that the option has been omitted on the product sorting list.
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To know more about eCommerce, please refer to our Website/Shopping Cart documentation for further information.